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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-05-10
M. KAKSKY,
Proprietor of n White House
Clothing Emporium,

Is selling his immense stock of Winter
clothing, and all other goods. at greatly
reduced prices. Bargain seekers will dc
we'll to examine my stock before buying
else where, M. kARsKY.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-05-10
~. IL n. PASsENGEn TRAVEL.

DEPARTURES YESTERDAY MORNING.
Thos Wren Mrs A l. Fitzgerald
w II Olsen JP Anderson
Owen Geraty Mrs VIM Peters i Oh
j NJ McDermott b Gilman
w ) Pardy ID Lindsey
A Skillman Il VT d Mcbride
Frank Cohen Ii r Hall
VIM Keefer
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WHITE PINE STAGE LINE.

ARRIVALS SATURDAY NIGHT.
W. e. Griffin.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-16
RAILROADS.

SPLENDID SCENERY.
MAGNIFICENT EQUIPMENT.
In Effect May 16, 1887.
Trains leave Washington, from station, corner o.
Sixth and streets as follows:
For Pittsburg and the Wegt, Chicago Limited
Express Of Palace Sleeping Cars at 9:50 q. NJ,
daily: Fast Limo $50 am. daily, to Cincinnati
and ST. Louis, with Sleeping Cars from Harris.
burg to Cincinnati, and Buffet Car to st. Louis |;
daily, except Saturday, to Chicago, with Sleep
at $40 p. m. daily, with Sleeping Cars
Washington To Chicago and st. Louis, and
Harrisburg to Cleveland, connecting at Harris
burg with through Shoppers for Louisville and
Memphis. Pacific Express, 1000 p. IN. daily,
for Pittsburg and the West, with through
slocpor Harrisburg to Chicago.
BALT1MoRE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.
For Erie, Canandaigua, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara
10:OOp. m. daily, except Saturday, with Palace
Cars Washington to Rochester.
For Williamsport, Lock Havon and Elmira, at
$50 a. M, daily, except Sunday.
For New York and the East, 1925, 900, 11:OO
and lao a. m, 200, 4:10, 1000 and 11;2o
4:1O, 1000 and 11:2o p m. Limited Express
of Pullman Parlor and Dining Cars, $40 a. NJ.
daily, except Sunday, and 400 p. m daily,
ihPenn sylvania Railroad Dining Cars.
For Boston without change, 200 p. m. evory
day.
For Brooklyn, N. - all LnrOuSn tralnS connecb ~
Jersey City with boats of Brooklyn Annex,
afTording direct transfer to Fulton street. avoid.
ing double ferriage across New York City.
For philadelphia, 7:25, 900, 11:OO and 11:4O
an, 200, 4:io, 600, 1000 and 11:2o P. m.
On Sunday 900 and 11:40 3. M, 200, 4:1O,
600, 1000 and 11:2O p. m. Limited Express,
Parlor and Dining Cars $40 a. m. week days,
and 400 p. n. daily.
For Baltimore 6:s5, 1875 900, $40, 900, LILO
and 11:4O am, 1905, 200, 400, 4:10, 400,
4:4O, 600. $40, 1000 and 11:2O p. m. On
Sunday, 900, 9:O5, $50 and lao am, 200,
400, 4:1O, 800, $40, 1000 and 11:20 p. m.
For Pope's Creek Line, 1925 3. M, and 440 p N
daily, except Sunday.
For Annapolis 7:25 a. m, and 1905, 4:2O and
600 p. NJ, daily except Sundays. On Sum
at 900 q. IN. and 4:1O p. m.
ALEXANDRIA, AND FREDERICKSBURG RAILWAY
AND ALEXANDRIA AND WARRINGTON RAILROAD.
For Alexandria, 600, 6:45, 840 9:47, and
1857 g. m, 1904 noon, 2.05, 4:25, 4:35, COL,
sos, 1905 and 11:37 p. m. On Sunday at
900, $40, 9:47 and 1857 a. m, and 2:3O,
COL, sos and 1905 p m.
For Richmond and the South, 600 and 1857 a.
m, daily, and 4:35 p. M, daily, except Sunday.
Trains leave Alexandria for Washington, 6:O6
500, 9:1O, 1915 and 11:07 a. M; LOO, 800,
1923, 5:1O 7:05, 9:32 and 1912 p. M, and
1916 midnight except Monday. On Sunday
at 500, $40 and 11:O7 a. M; 200, 5:1O,
7:O5, 9:32 and 1912 p. m. and 1915 night.
Tickets and information at the Office, Northeast
corner of 18th street and Penna. Avenue, and at
the station where orders be loft for the check.
ing of baggage to destination from hotels and
residences. j. x. WOOD, It. r. a.
CHAs. E. PUGH, I'm.
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~ ;gsa!nllrla Qbazktfe.
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16.
CATCHING RATS WITH A HooK.-A re-

CATCHING RATS WITH HooK.-A re-
porter, browsing about between midnight
and l o'clock yesterday morning, saw
man standing near one of the electric light
posts on Washington street waving long
horsswhip back and forth high above his
head. He had fishhook on the end of the
whip. to which was attached moth miller,
and he explained that with this bait ne cap
tured the bats that were foraging among the
insects around the electric light. He said
he got half dollar apiece for them, and
that hs had already caught seven that night;
He sold them to the ta1idermists, and said
that he could get more for them in Boston.
He spoke of hiring q man to help him, as ne
could catch enough then to pay him for
shipping them to Boston. he caught two
while the reporter remained to watch the
operation, and he picked them of the hook
and put them in bag that ne carried sung
across his shoulder Providence (R. IL
Journal.
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.ily- tDaily except Sunday.
MANASSAS BRANCH.

WARRENTON-Trains Nos so, 81, "a, 90, So
and 50 connect daily to and from Warrenton.
FRANKLIN DIvISION-Daily, except Sunday
Leave Rocky Mt. TAO a. NJ, arrive franklin
7:3O D. mr. arrive Rocky Mt. 1880 p. N.
Observation-Disclosures leave Orange for
Gordonsville 11:53 g. NJ. $50 p. m. and 800 p.
D. m daily, and $40 q. m. daily except Sunday.
Returning, leave Gordonsville for Orange Clio q.
M, 1:35 p m, and 400 p. m. daily, and 11:OO q.
m. daily except Sunday.
SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
On trains Nos. so and 81 Pullman Buffet Sleep
ers between New York and Atlanta via Danville.
On trains Nos 90 and SO Pullman Buffet Sleep
ers between Washington and Montgomery, and
Washington and Augusta via Danvillo.
On trains Nos. Sd and 55 Pullman Shoppers be-
tween Washington and Louisville, and Char
lottesvilc and Cincinnati.
On trains Nos 81 and SO Pullman Buffet
Slecpers between Washington and Memphis,
via Lynchburg.
On trains Nos. 55 and So Pullman Buffet
Slcepers between Washington and New Orleans,
via Lynchcurg and Kenncsaw route.
WASHINGTON AND OHIO DIVISION.
ALL TRAINS DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Leave Alexandria 600 a. M, 9:17 q. m. and
45O p. M; arrive at Round Hill 11:20 q. H.,
11:45 a. M. and 7:19 p. m.
Returning, trains leave Round Hill Cos a. NJ
lid a. M and LOB p. M. arriving at Alexan'
dria at s:32 a. M, 4:40 p. m. and 3:47 p. m.
Tho 900 a. IN. train from Alexandria connects
at Bound Hill with stage for Blue Ridge, Berry
vile and Winchester and at Leesburg with stages
for Aldie and Middleburg.
The 9:2O a. m. train and 4:50 p. m. train from
Alexandria connects at Vienna with stages for
Fairfax Court House.
Through tickets on sale at the principal stations
to all points. For rates or information apply to
any agent of the Company, or to
%
Alexandria, Va.
JAS. L. TAYLOR, G. P. A.
Washington, D. g.
SOL. HAAS, T. NJ, Richmond Va.
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Ia.
Successors to R. q. stabler)
DRUGGISTS AND CHEMISTS,
N. W. Corner King and Washington Streets
Dealers in Patont Medicines, Drugs, Cigars and
Cigarettes, Fine Tooth Brushes, Nail Brushes,
German and Domestic Cologne, Hair Brushes,
Sponges, Flesh Straps, &c. Especial care given to
prescriptions. jan28-tf
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Tennyson's s.sIay Queen,

Who knows but if the beautiful girl who
died so young had been blessed with DR..
Pierce's "FaYorite Prescription" she might
have reigned on many another bright May
day The "Favorite Prescription" Is GER
,aiu cure for oil those disorders to which
-rmaIes are liable.
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alssassa1rHd1eiia Gazetfe.

The GAZETTE is now the oldest paper jr
the State, and with few exceptions the old.
est In the country, and its usefulness has
been demonstrated and appreciated during
the EIGHTY.sEvEN YEARS ofits existence. In
its columns has always been found mirror
of passing events, and the careful chron.
cling Of the history of what is going on in the
world has ever been its aim. 1t is always
welcomed in the household while in the
counting room and workshop it has become
invaluable.
The GAZETTE has better facilities for ob.
tanning news than any paper outside of the
national capital Situated as it is so close
to the great centre of news, it enjoys daily
the benefit of the Associated Press dis
patches from every part ofthe world hence
its patrons can read from its columns in the
evening what has transpired that day in
every portion of our own domain as well as
from every part of the habitable globe.
Consequently it is an every day occurrence
for the GAZETTE to publish kilograms from
the various European capitals twelve and
fifteen hours earlier than the morning pa.
pers.
Another feature that serves to make the
GAZETTE great desideratum with mcr.
chants is it's afternoon market reports FROM
New York, Baltimore, Chicago and other
centres.
The local department furnishes q full and
complete history of everything that occurs
n and near the city, and this feature will,
as ever, receive careful attention.
Correspondence from Washington, Rich
mond and every section of the State, is pub.
lshed regularly, and all events of interest
occurring within the bounds of the Com.
monweath are TO be found in the columns
of the GAZETTE.
The GAzETTEs circulation is steadily in
creasing, especially among people who con.
suit its advertising columns before purchas.
ing. That this is selfevident may be infer.
red from the fact that large country edi-
tion-nearly as large as the daily--is sent
all over this section of country three tines
week, and is read by thousands, most of
whom send here or to contiguous cities to
make purchases. The advantages of adj
vertising in the GAZETTE are, therefore, ap-
darent.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Daily Gazette, per annum, sec
Tri-weekly Gazette, for country, 90
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e. HALL,
GGls TS,

Corner Prince and Fairfax street.
Prescriptions a speciality. English, Fronch,
German and Domestic Toilet Soaps; Genuine
Farina Cologne; Magnolia, Hcdyosmia, Geranium
and Florida Water; Genuine Lubins Extracts;
Sponges, Hair Brushes and Combs; best English
Tooth Brushes; full assortment of Patent Medi.
cinos, Coxe's Gelatine, Corn Starch Sea Moss Fa-
rine Spices of all kinds, and select stock of all
articles sold by druggists at prices as low as the
same quality can be obtained elsewhere. dec
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Opening and Closing Of the Mails

Opening and Closing OF the Walls.
Northern mails close at 730 and 1880 a. m.
and 1890, 6:30 and 7:30 p. m. Open at $50
a. M, 1900 m. and $50 p. IN.
Southern mails via Richmond, Ya close at 5:46
and 10: 80 q. M, 4:15 and 900 p. m. Open at
$50 and 1870 a. M.
Southwestern mails via Charlottesville, Va,
close at 500 and Ills a. m. and 800 p M.
Open at $50 a. m, 1900 m. and $50 p. m.
Manassas Division mails close at 2:3O p. IN.
Open at 1000 a. m.
Alexandria and Round Hill Va. mails close at
S:45 a. m. and 400 p. m. Open at 900 a. m and
4:30 p. m.
Closed mails to Falls Church, Vienna, Fairfax
C. H, Herndon, Leesburg and Purcellville, Va,
close at 400 p. N. and open at 900 a. M.
Western mails close at 1890, 4:15 and 1850
p. m. Open at $50 a. NJ, 1900 m. and $50 pm.
Washington, DC. mails close at 1870 and 1880
g. M, and 1890, $50 and 7:3O p. m. Open
at $50 and 1000 a. M, 1900 M. and 800 and
$50 p. m.
Office Hours.open at $50 a. M, Close at $50
D. m. Open at $50 p M. Close at p. m.
Sunday Hours-Open at 900 q. m. Close at
$50 a. M.
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RAILROADS.

Condensed SCdEDULE, IN LFrEO1
JUNE 8, 1887.
Trains rnn by 18th Meridian Time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-16
DIRECTORY
-os TIE
PRINCIPAL Business Houses Of The CITY

Banks.
Burke g. Herbert, cor. King and Fairfax street i.
Citizens National Bank, n. ". cor. Prince snc
Leo streets
First National Bank, g. W. cor. Prince and Lss
Books, Stationary and Printing.
E. French, So King street.
Brewers.
The Robert Portner Brewing Company.
Brick Makers.
Arlington Brick Machine Co., Canal lock.
Carriages.
Summers & Bro, Pitt street.
China, Glassware, &C.
EJ. Miller, Son & Co., 60 King street.
Clothing and Furnishing Goods
Jos. Brager No. 10 King street.
Commission Merchants.
p.B Hooe, Prince street.
Confsohoners.
Henry Brengle, 129 King street
Dry Goods and Notions.
R.H. Taylor, 933 Penns. ave., Washington.
A. B. Slsymaker, Jos King street.
]. E. Tackett, 100 King street.
Carter. I'll Market Space, Washington.
Drugs and Chemicals.
W.T.. Creighton & Co., N. W. cor. King ant
4. A. Warfeld, 152 King street.
F. S. Lesdbeator & Bro, S. Fairfax street
8. II. Lunt, cor. King and Fairfax streets.
J.DH Lunt, u. o. cor King and Washingto
etreets.
L. stabler & Co., n. W. cor. King and washiui,
ton streets.
Waraeld Hall, cor. Prince and Fairfax street
Grocers and Liquor Dealers.
10. Milburn, II n. Royal street.
Charles King Son, 81 Cameron street
Harlow & Bro, n. w. cor. Royal and Cameron
arrests.
W. A. johnson, n. Q. cor. Royal and Cameron
streets.
q. McBurney & Son, 8. W. cor. King and Wash
'ngton streets.
q. VIM Ramsay, cor King and st. Asaph strcos
Hardware and Cutlery.
IF. Csrlin & Sons, 60 King street.
T. r. Creighton & Son, SS King street.
B. F. PeaEe, cor. King and Pitt streets.
Ice.
F.A. Reed & Co., Strand.
Jewellers.
A. Wildt, 10 n. Royal street.
Lumber, &c.
Perry, smoot & Co., No. % corner Cameron and
Union sts.
Josiah A. D. Smoot, 81 north Union ST.
Eachinists.
VS.. Moore 65 Union street.
Real Estate Agents.
Harlow & Cation, Market Building.
Wines and Liquors.
Geo. Steuernagol, corner King and Fairfax SITS.
Wood and Coal.
W. A. Smoot g. Co., foot of Princess st.
A. III. Agnew foot of franklin ST.
j. r Zimmerman, foot of Queen st.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-09-08
They Sat Down on Her.

A Cleveland girl who had great
liking for lying around on the beach
thought it great fun to have herself
buried in the sand by her companions.
She was made comfortable and fast,
and her straw hat was thrown over
her face to keep the sun out of her eyes,
She enioyed it so much that she fell
asleep. She won't say how long she
Law there, but she was wakened by an
awful pressure. She was held SO fast
with the sand and the strange addi-
tional weight that she couldn't bulge,
but she continued to let out an awful
shrek from under her straw hat. The
pressure was instantly removed, her
hat knocked off her face, and a young
man and his sweetheart were gazing
down upon her with, an expression of
amazement and horror. She was got
ten out of her sandy bed in a jiffy and
hurried off to her bath-house. Her
companions had gone away and quite
forgotten her. The stranger and his
pretty sweetheart, strolling along the
beach had mistaken her for sandy
mound and sat down on her to say their
sweet little sayings, but they had hard
ly begun when the yell OF fright under
them knocked all the life out of senti-
ment. The story got out of course,
and the Cleveland girl is SO embar-
rassed that they say she is going to
leave. They say, by the way, that
there is a great want of quiet little
hooks at the Cape this year, where
two beings who find their world in
each other may be free from disturb
ance by other wandering bodies.
However, trust to sentiment. 1t will
find an eyrie always, somewhere far
from unwelcome eyes.-Phitadetphia
prooe
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-09-08
why Am L a Heathen?

The main element of all religion is
the moral code controlling and regu-
lating the relations and acts of indi-
viduals toward "God, neighbor, and
self" and this intelligent "heathen-
ism" was taught thousands of years
before Christianity existed or Jewry
borrowed it. Heathenism has not lost
or lessened it since.
We heather are q God-fearing race.
Aye, we believe the whole Universe
creation-whatever exists and has ex-
isted-is of God and in God; that fig
uratiyely, the thunder is His voice and
the lightning His mighty hands; that
everything we do and contemplate
doing is seen and known by Him; that
He has created this and other worlds
to effectuate benefcent, not merciless,
designs, and that all that He hassdone
is for the steady, progressive benefit Of
the creatures whom He endowed with
life and sensibility, and to whom as a
consequence He owes and gives pater-
nal care, and will give paternal COM
pensation and justice; yet His voice
will threaten and His mighty hand
chastise those who deliberately dis
obey His sacred laws and their duty to
their fellow-man.
do unto others as you wish they
would do unto you," or Love your
neighbor as yourself" is the great
Divine law which Christians and
heather alike hold, but which the
Christians ignore.
This is what keeps me the heather i
am, and earnestly invite the Chris
tians of America to come to Confucius.
Wong Chin Foo.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-09-08
"Nfr. Howells is Right"

A friend sends to the editor the fol-
lowing experience, which has the mer-
it of being at once amusing and sug-
gestive: zone pleasant afternoon of
last week l was walking along the
high and breezy eastern bank of the
upper Mystic Lake. My companion
was young lady who had then, for
the first time this summer, escaped
from the city.
'' See said she, pointing across the
lake; there is a tower on the other
shore, among the trees. 1 will be q
prisoner there and you shall come and
rescue me. You will stand at the foot
an hour after sunset. You will sing
and l shall hear you and come. We
will steal down to the border of the
over there in that little cove-and
there we will sail away, you and I to-
gether to fairyland, as they do in the
country, like this, / believe the old
romances. But, oh, dear! when / GO
back to the city think that perhaps
Mr.. Howells is right after ALL
''My DEAR said 1. that is not Q
lower over Inefei IndI Is d cRinney.
/ know the gentleman who lives in
the grounds. He doesn't like peol le
to wander about his house at night
singing. My boat is at home in the
stable because it leaks. But even If it
were in the little cove, all taut and
trim, the gate-keeper has orders not
to let any boats pass the dam-not
even two lovers fleeing from the en-
chanted tower to the fairy country in
the Southwest Medford, think it ID
down there
"'Mr. Howells is right said she.
Let us go back to Boston. "-Boston
Courier.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-09-08
The Old-Fashioned Hair.

oh, the old-fashioned hair of the sweet long
ago
And the faces it framed with its beautiful
grace.
OF the dear ones long since gone to rest.
There were tresses and ringlets and long braid
There were beautiful bonnie bright curls,
And high combs and side combs, and fair shin
That were worn by the old-fashioned girls.
I remember the roach that my grandfather
Brushed back from his broad honest brow,
With an elegant, easy simplicity, which,
Though 1 look for, never set now.
And my grandmother's hair-snowy white hid
Meath a head-dress of dainty white lace,
Curving down from her brow in a smooth sill
yer band
Framed "A queenly and beautiful face.
As the proud, noble face of my great uncle
With the ''old-timey stock, and the fine pow
dered wig
Ills as handsome and grand as can bel
But the dearest and loveliest hair in the world
Is my mothers soft, beautiful brown.
With touch of tho gold, and CLINT of the
And away to her knees falling down.
And it tells it's own story of womanly grace.
And the old-fashioned mOdesty too,
Of that sweet indescfibable beauty of soul,
And the mothers love, tender and true.
For the angel that painted the rainbow could
find
Not tint so exquisite and rareI
Oh the wealth of luxurious, ripping waves
OF my mothers brown, beautiful hair!
So honor the hair of the sweet long ago,
whether silver. or duSky, or fair,
n 6pQr fa oOd NOD racN
hearts
And / love 1.-THE old-fashioned hairl
Margaret Andrews Oldham.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-09-08
A Plea for Bangs.
- Z

I wonder why it is that everyone
the newspapers in particular-should
be so ''down" upon bangsP 1 have
waited in silent indignation for some
of my sister women to speak up in de-
fense of the style, but though they
have clung to it tenaciously none has
dared to lift up her voice against pub
lie (masculine) opinion.
Now, 1 declare the fashion was both
sensible and becoming, though, Of
course. like other good things, capa-
BILE of being carried to an extreme. A
young and pretty girl was positively
bewitching with her fluffy or straight
hair shading her smooth brow, while
to women not as young as they would
like to be it was a perfect boon to have
the sOftering effect of the dropping,
hair and the lines of the forehead SO
prettily hidden.
1t must needs be young and pretty
face that looks well with the hair
combed smoothly back, while to the
majority of women the pompadour
style gives an unpleasantly bold look.
Besides, / can't for the life of me sec
why women should not be allowed to
comb" their hair as they please without
such fuss being made over it. When
men took notion to have their heads
shaved as bald as baby's and display
ing every bump, as if they had just
come from phrenologists, we all
knew it was ugly, yet you did not hear
US ranting about it in the newspapers,
or denying them religious privileges
on that account.
| suppose it doesn't matter so much
about mems looks, only one likes fair
play, especially in a free country
Daisy Dean.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-09-08

How Stories Grow.

A little item of news appeared few
weeks ago in a Montana paper stating
that the very gentlemanly Piegan
squaws had made a handsome fortune
the past spring skinning the dead
cattle of the ranchmen living around
their reservation. z.
That item started out on its journey.
and an Idaho paper stated the Piegan
Indians had made 81 900 in the land-
able pastime of ripping the hides off
defunct bovines somewhere in Mon
tana.
A Utah exchange said the Heigan
Bucks had cleared up 10000 hides
taken from frozen stockmen up in
Montana to the tune OF $4,000.
A Nebraska exchange said the Pie
Gun inguns had struck bonanza to
the charming amount of $400, 600 peel
ing dead carcasses up in Montana.
An Ohio wide-awake journal (and the
Buckeye State is generally in the lead
in everything) says the Bee-gum
Indians of Montana had realized q
cool $4,O0O,OOO out of their efforts to
strip the cuticle out of the entire
animal kingdom.-BoiSeC City (Iddho) i
Statesman A
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nansAsx-....s.,,Ss.


he had told his story, Tom, with his
nugget held in both hands, made his
way back to his shantv, scarcely able
to believe in his own good fortune
''Much good it 'ud done Tom.
though" grimly returned another
''Black Mike would have KEEP it to his
self and lit out with it first chance"
But what "might have been" was not
worth speaking of. and for the first
time in months, Tom Horton turned
into his bunk with really light heart
And in the morning the bird concert
which began with the day dawn had
no more appreciative listner than Tom,
even when the laughing jackass started
in, for now there seemed to be some
thing joyously exultant in the bird
laugh itself.
Not many more mornings did he
hear it though, for as soon as possible
Tom set out for Ballarat. And though
his ''find" was not in itself fortune,
the sum realized by its sale will, have
no doubt, prove to be the nucleus of a
future fortune, if Tom goes to work the
right way. He is beginning right now
at any rate.-The Golden Argosy.